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muriel_volestrangler

(101,144 posts)
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 11:47 AM Apr 2021

India coronavirus: Man charged over oxygen SOS for dying grandfather

Source: BBC

Police in India are prosecuting a man who used Twitter to try to find oxygen for his dying grandfather.

Officers in Uttar Pradesh state charged Shashank Yadav with spreading a rumour over oxygen shortages "with intent to cause... fear or alarm".
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Uttar Pradesh is among India's worst-hit states. Its chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, is accused of downplaying the severity of the coronavirus crisis.

Earlier this week, Mr Adityanath, a right-wing ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded that the property of anyone spreading rumours and propaganda be seized.
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Mr Yadav's grandfather died on Monday night, apparently of a heart attack. Officials said he had not been suffering from Covid-19, but the circumstances around his death remain unclear.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56894757



He could face jail - for this:




(Sonu Sood is a Bollywood actor)

The nationalists in India really are atrocious.
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India coronavirus: Man charged over oxygen SOS for dying grandfather (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2021 OP
Indian government orders crackdown on individuals and hospitals reporting shortages dalton99a Apr 2021 #1
How Trumpian of Modi. SunSeeker Apr 2021 #10
Who cares how many die, as long as no-one speaks ill of the powerful? RockRaven Apr 2021 #2
Modi is a terrorist JI7 Apr 2021 #3
Literally IronLionZion Apr 2021 #5
RWers suck pretty bad IronLionZion Apr 2021 #4
The RWNJs would do this, if they could. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #6
"How dare you make us look bad!" Grokenstein Apr 2021 #7
And we'd have been is a simular situation if we'd have let the last WH occupant have his own way. marble falls Apr 2021 #8
It's not a rumour if it's true. keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #9

dalton99a

(81,062 posts)
1. Indian government orders crackdown on individuals and hospitals reporting shortages
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 12:04 PM
Apr 2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/indian-state-cracks-down-on-hospitals-flagging-oxygen-shortage

Indian state ‘cracks down’ on hospitals flagging oxygen shortage
Uttar Pradesh’s BJP government accused of ordering crackdown on individuals and hospitals reporting shortages, according to Indian media reports.

27 Apr 2021

The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in India’s most populous Uttar Pradesh state has ordered a crackdown on individuals and hospitals reporting a shortage of medical oxygen or beds, according to Indian media reports.

Over the weekend, the northern state’s saffron-clad Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a firebrand Hindu monk known for his hate speech, threatened to invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) and the Gangster Act against anyone trying to spread fear and panic during the pandemic, local reports said.

He also said the property of “anti-social elements” spreading “rumours and propaganda on social media” should be seized – a measure earlier used by the state against criminals, but now becoming a regular threat under Adityanath’s government.

“There is no shortage of beds, oxygen and life-saving drugs in the state,” Adityanath said during a virtual news conference on Monday, claiming his government has “established 32 oxygen plants” in the state.

SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
10. How Trumpian of Modi.
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 05:21 PM
Apr 2021

I remember when Trump blamed the N95 mask shortage on nurses and doctors "taking them out the back door."

IronLionZion

(45,250 posts)
5. Literally
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 01:08 PM
Apr 2021

he was banned from travel to the US and many other western countries before his election as Prime Minister.

IronLionZion

(45,250 posts)
4. RWers suck pretty bad
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 01:06 PM
Apr 2021

Modi's government has been claiming fake news, his liberal opponents are trying to make him look weak, etc. As if people can't see the truth.

The crackdown on journalism and social media is nothing less than fascism.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
6. The RWNJs would do this, if they could.
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 02:41 PM
Apr 2021

Just how many resources does India commit to keeping a BILLION people under the collective thumb? Just ridiculous and appalling.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
7. "How dare you make us look bad!"
Wed Apr 28, 2021, 03:04 PM
Apr 2021

Never mind the horrifying footage of bodies being burned in the streets, right?

It's like they just want to punch down on the already-suffering. Remind you of anyone?

His public rhetoric, Trump told Woodward in March, was part of a strategy to deliberately minimize the danger. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president said. “I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.”

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